Nugget Post : Quick USER ID tip for palo alto admins

Posted on by David Vassallo

Quick Tip... You're a Palo Alto firewall administrator, and you've setup USER ID to identify all your users and write user-based firewall policies. Problem: some users have linux laptops and do not login to the domain, others are windows users that the USER ID system simply does not pick up. Solution: 1. Create a read … Continue reading Nugget Post : Quick USER ID tip for palo alto admins

Nugget Post : Setting LDAP connection timeout for PHP

Posted on by David Vassallo

Problem : in some scenarios, for example running a periodic health check on an LDAP / AD server, you may want to set a low timeout so that if a server does not answer LDAP bind requests, a user is notified in a reasonable amount of time. Also, if your PHP code is blocking, a … Continue reading Nugget Post : Setting LDAP connection timeout for PHP